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Michael Lafayette
Michael Lafayette

Reputation: 3072

ssh - Control socket does not exist - Operation timed out

When I try to SSH on to my remote desktop from my Mac, I get this error message:

$ ssh -vvvv [email protected]
OpenSSH_7.4p1, LibreSSL 2.5.0
debug1: Reading configuration data /Users/john/.ssh/config
debug1: /Users/john/.ssh/config line 26: Applying options for *
debug1: /Users/john/.ssh/config line 40: Applying options for dev-dsk*.amazon.com
debug1: /Users/john/.ssh/config line 165: Applying options for *.us-east-*.amazon.com
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: auto-mux: Trying existing master
debug1: Control socket "/tmp/ssh_mux_dev-dsk-john.com_22_john" does not exist
debug2: resolving "dev-dsk-john.com" port 22
debug2: ssh_connect_direct: needpriv 0
debug1: Connecting to dev-dsk-john.com [10.1.133.160] port 22.
debug1: connect to address 10.1.1.1 port 22: Operation timed out
ssh: connect to host dev-dsk-john.com port 22: Operation timed out

The connection hangs at
debug1: Connecting to dev-dsk-john.com [10.1.133.160] port 22.

It was working three days ago.

The system says the host is still active, so I'm pretty sure the computer is still powered on.

Upvotes: 6

Views: 13972

Answers (1)

Ethan
Ethan

Reputation: 4995

I faced the same problem today, and finally managed to fixed it.

I first verified that the control socket really doesn't exist. My path was "/home/ethan/.ssh/controlmasters/[email protected]:22" and this didn't exist.

I then ran ssh like:

ssh -M -S /home/ethan/.ssh/controlmasters/ethan@<ipaddr>:22  server.example.org

Now, it connects and also creates the control socket. Subsequently, I could open another ssh and that didn't require password and things worked normally.

Upvotes: 2

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